Leading Primary Care Tales from the Leadership Hikers

?I am truly delighted to be recommending this book and suite of resources to you ? I trust that you will find them as inspiring and thought provoking as I have done?

Prof Dame Helen Stokes-Lampard DBE PhD FRCGP FLSW

Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

This new book of leadership narratives fleshes out the reality of working to achieve change in primary care and will be relevant to a wide primary care audience, empowering both clinicians and non-clinicians to recognize and use their leadership qualities. The book draws together stories from a wide range of primary care practitioners who work at different levels from junior to senior, and both in practice and at scale, to show how they used their leadership in primary care, the difficulties they faced and the lessons they learned. To maximize the insights the reader might gain, to each contribution the editors have added their own thoughts on the leadership story and what the wider community can learn, referencing back to the editors' companion book The Leadership Hike rather than repeating the theory.

Key Features

• Transforms theoretical leadership principles into practical applications through real-life experiences in contemporary primary care
• Appeals to individuals at all stages of training and practice by offering real-world examples from a diverse array of primary care professionals.
• Addresses a wide range of subjects to empower a cross-section of the primary care team.
• Highlights areas of significant change within the primary care workforce, motivating current and future leaders to shape the future.
• Encourages self-reflection through thought-provoking questions, prompting readers to apply the lessons in their own leadership journeys.
• Complementing the book, podcast interviews with the authors can be found at https://elearning.rcgp.org.uk/mod/page/view.php?id=13316.

When read independently or in conjunction with The Leadership Hike, this is an ideal reference for all members of the team, clinicians and non-clinicians alike, and is particularly relevant to GP trainees and trainers following the introduction of leadership and quality improvement as part of the licensing qualification for general practice (MRCGP).

Introduction: The Leadership Resources by Amar Rughani and Joanna Bircher

Section - Tales from the Leadership Hikers

Chapter 1 Ollie Hart

Chapter 2 Faisal Bokhari

Chapter 3 Susan Bowie

Chapter 4 Sheinaz Stansfield

Chapter 5 Carey Lunan

Chapter 6 Darshna Patel

Chapter 7 Ben Allen

Chapter 8 Tracey Vell

Chapter 9 Rupa Joshi

Chapter 10 Craig Nikolic

Chapter 11 Krishna Kasareneni

Chapter 12 Austin O’Carroll

Chapter 13 Owen Richards

Chapter 14 Victor MontoriIndex

Index

Amar Rughani was a GP in Chapelgreen Practice, Sheffield for over 30 years, with senior roles in GP education, examining and curriculum development. He was Provost of the RCGP in South Yorkshire and North Trent, during which time he encouraged inclusiveness and diversity in the team.

Joanna Bircher is a GP in Greater Manchester. She is Clinical Director of Greater Manchester GP Excellence Programme, a Generation Q Fellow of the Health Foundation, an RCGP Clinical Adviser and is co-author of the RCGP Guide to Quality Improvement.